Ensuring Organization-Intervention Fit for a Participatory Organizational Intervention to Improve Food Service Workers’ Health and Wellbeing Workplace Organizational Health Study

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• Personal Author:
  Madden J ; Nagler EM ; Nielsen KM ; Peters SE ; Revette AC ; Sorensen, Glorian
• Description:
  Objective: Food-service workers' health and wellbeing is impacted by their jobs and work environments. Formative research methods were used to explore working conditions impacting workers' health to inform intervention planning and implementation and to enhance the intervention's "fit" to the organization. Methods: Four qualitative methods (worker focus groups; manager interviews; worksite observations; multi-stakeholder workshop) explored in-depth and then prioritized working conditions impacting workers' health as targets for an intervention. Results: Prioritized working conditions included: ergonomics; work intensity; career development; and job enrichment. Data revealed necessary intervention mechanisms to enhance intervention implementation: worker and management communication infrastructure; employee participation in intervention planning and implementation; tailored worksite strategies; and ensuring leadership commitment. Conclusions: These targeted, comprehensive methods move away from a typical focus on generic working conditions, for example, job demands and physical work environment, to explore those conditions unique to an organization. Thereby, enhancing "intervention-fit" at multiple levels within the company context. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Ergonomics
  • Food-Processing Industry
  • Musculoskeletal Diseases
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
  • Workplace
• Keywords:
  • Work organization
  • Work environment
  • Qualitative methods
  • Total Worker Health
  • TWH
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • MSD
  • Food processing workers
  • Intervention effectiveness
  • Ergonomics
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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  62
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058557
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2020 Feb; 62(2):e33-e45
• Contact Point Address:
  Susan E. Peters, PhD, BOccThy (Hons), Harvard Center for Work, Health and Wellbeing, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115
• Email:
  sepeters@hsph.harvard.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Performing Organization:
  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160801
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20200731
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/221622/cdc_221622_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 379.24 KB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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